| 摘要 |
<p>Utilization of resources used to provide a service, and/or costs associatedwith providing system resources for a service, are tracked in a system where theavailable resources vary depending on a variety of conditions including resourceutilization by other users. The methods are well suited for systems such as mobilecommunications systems, where the amount of resources and/or costs to a systemof providing a service are dynamic and can change on a relatively rapid time scale.Resource unitization is tracked on a per subscriber basis. Service charges canbe determined as a function of both the amount of resources consumed and the amountof data delivered, with the amount of resources being used to deliver a fixed amountof data units varying as a function of environmental and/or other conditions.Service charges are sometimes determined as a function of the impact of providingthe service to a first user on other system users.</p> |
